Category: Web 2.0 (Observations)

The future of media is cosplay

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From The PA Report: But let’s get back to the general ecosystem out there: How do sites justify running longer, in-depth stories that won’t bring in the huge page views? I have bad news. They write shit. Popular shit. I stopped getting mad at the “Top Ten Japanese Panties I Jerked Off To Last Night” stories on certain sites when I realized that the hundreds of thousands of page views those articles received helped pay for a writer to spend a week gathering sources and do original reporting for a feature. The “Sexy Cosplay” galleries are worth an epic amount

Just hide the features, don’t strip them out

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Nicole Simon on the loss of ‘expert’ mode: What happened to proper tools in the expert mode and ‘simplified interfaces’ as defaults? I am all for dumbing down interfaces for helping people get a grasp on them (think duplos in little kids hands versus legos) but why on earth do we have left out the expert modes? The lego mindstorm stuff which actually some people know how to use and work with because they are not toddlers anymore? Google’s new compose window goes along the same lines. “People are confused how to do mail, so we want to ‘subtlety encourage